Listen, of course lots of people seek out porn because they enjoy watching people having sex. But focusing on just the sounds of sex, and letting your imagination fill in the blanks, can be a powerful, intense experience.

In a way, audio porn is kind of a form of sensory deprivation. When you dull one of your senses during sex, it heightens the rest of the sensations you experience, Myisha Battle, a certified sex coach in San Francisco told Refinery29. "When one sense is dulled, the brain can temporarily compensate and allow us to become more sensitive to the stimuli from our other senses," she said. That's why using a blindfold during sex makes your partner's touch or taste feel so much more intense, for example. Similarly, listening to audio-only porn provides a completely different, more intense experience than watching a porn video.